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LAST ACT
OF KING OF EGYPT
AGREEMENT WITH SUEZ CANAL CO.
•
Cairo, May 3,
A decree signed by the late King Fund on the morning of the day of his death, with reference to the re- cent agreement between the Suez Canal Company and the Egyptian Government, has been published.
It Axes the minimum canal dues at. 63 plastres (about ten gold france) per ton, instend of 36.5 plastres, in order to
guarantee the company against possible henvy depreciation of The Egyptian currency in ternis of gold, in view of the recent Egyptian decree abolishing the gold clauses,
The company has agreed, among other things, to appoint two Egyption directors, and to employ 26 per cent. of its stat from
Egyptian amung applicants-Bruter.
U.S. Business
Outlook
BIG IMPROVEMENT.
ANTICIPATED
Washington, May 2. Only the mual seasonal business decline is expected during Jung and July, with n signal improvement dur. ing the last quarter regardless of the results of the Presidential election.
The recent stock market decline is regarded here without, alarm as an overdue correction. It must be membered that a good pre-election stock market is politically expedient. The currency inflation bill will not pass
| Congress will probably adjourn in the middle of June.
It is thought that following the elections in France, that country will slowly devalue her currency. No further American devaluation
expected. Culbertson and Fritz.
dolar Swan,
Seeks Balanced Budget
CANADIAN
FINANCIAL POSITION
2 MORE TO DAY ◄ TO-MORROW Cada's Minister of Finance
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CHARLIE CHANS SECRET
AFDR plemen with “
WARNER OLAND
with
Ottawa, May . Reporting a $162,191,000 deficit for the fiscal
year ending March 31,
r Charles Dunning, to-day presented! The House of Commons with a new Budget, providing for higher corpora tion income taxes coupled with tariff reductions complying with the trade agement between Canarla and the United States.
The Minister of Finance said that the new taxes were designed to pra duce "an immediate approach" to a balanced budget.-United Penns
URGES WIDER INFLATION
BY REFINANCING MORTGAGES
Washington, May 3. Representative Thomas F. Ford, Democrat of California, to-day an nounced that he intends to offer an! amendment to
to the Frazier-Lemkej Farm Mortgage BI.
The amendment is intended to ex- tend the provistuns of the Bill to all urban dwellers owning houses valued
below $5,000.
at
Such a measure would double the currency expansion provision of the Frazier-Lemke Bill to $0,000,000,000,
Under Representative Ford's pro- posal, urban dwellers as well as farmers would be enabled to res finance mortgages at three per cent. interest-United Press.
FRENCH LEGATION
STORMED
(Continued from Page. 1.)
Joss of millions of france.
These messages have aroused grave concern, and the Government has ap pealed to Rome to protect the foreign population in Addis Ababa, Signor Benito Mussolini has ordered Marshal Pietro Badoglio to hasten to occupy the city and assure the safety foreignern.
SERIOUS MENACE
says
koon as
of
The French Minister says his Legation is harbouring 1,200 French, Czecho-Slovakian and Spanish re fugees
that as
the Ethiopians learned Italian prisoner avere in his custody, troops opened firo on the Legatlon. Ife thereupon armed the refugees and stational them to hold the compound walls at all costs. The women and children were placed in a deep cave, dug months ago, preparatory for just Buch an emergency.
The supplies of food, water and clothing are vory short, the Minister adds. Also the little garrison is in need of ammunition. The gardens
pinno from Djibouti to land with cartridges United Press.
Tuesday:Murder On A Honeymoon" Edna May Oliver have been cleared to permit-an nero-
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1936.
MOLOKAI MARTYR HONOURED
KING OF BELGIUM PAYS RESPECTS
Antwerp, May 3.
A crowd of 100,000, hended by King Leopold, watched the arrival of the Belgian sailing endet ship, Mercator, with the body of the heroic Father Damien, from the leper faland of Molokal.
The priest's coffin was borno in Kolomn procession to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and after a service there was taken to Louvain for Inter munt.
Father Damien worked for moro than a quarter of a century among the lepera of Molokai, in the mid-Pacific, shat uff from his own kind, a willing
Empress of Ethiopia, who was fur-martyr in the end. For he contracted prly responsible, for the departure of the disense himself-Reuter, The Emperor from his comitry.
BRITISH CABINET SESSION
BIG PROBLEMS FOR CONSIDERATION
Sino-American Conversations
AGREEMENT ON SILVER POLICIES
Washington, May 3. Reliable sources there to-day said that in their recent conversations Mr. Henry Morgenthau and Mr. K. P. Chen, Chinese financial expert, had
FOREIGN OFFICE ed an understanding, exclusively
ACTIVITY
London, May 5.
on the question of silver ns related to fiscal problems,
The questions of commercial credits The speed secting of the Cabinet, trade problems will be left unt!! rated for tomorrow, will consider theater and negotiations will be carried
through out
regular diplomatic recent developments in Ethiopia Well as the questionnaire to the Ger-agencies, It is believed.
an Chancellor, Berr Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, it is said that the con-
their Bnal. It will also deal with the alleged versations have renched Ieakage of Budget secrets, in connee-stage and are likely to conclude with- tion with, which Mr. Neville Chamber in a week if Mr. Morgenthau can lain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, spare the time from the domestic inx will make a statement in the Hits problems.
of Commons to-morrow afternoon. It has been learned that all the The Ethiopian situation is respon-technical work with the Treasury ex- sible for the lvoliness at the Foreign | perts has been concluded, and one Offer. This afternoon, the Speretury, very responsible source has said that Mr. Anthong Eden, returned to town the Soal understanding awaits only and drove to the Foreign Office in a
a fifial conference-Baited Press, Laxicab. At 4.30 p.m. he conferrel with Foreign Oiller officinis,
the Prime Mr. Stanley Baldwin,
London Minister, alati returned to from Chequers, at d'o'clock.Renter
CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGES
FORMER MESS-BOY
ACCUSED
MONEY DEMAND
ALLEGED
two
Closer Tade Relations
SINO-PHILIPPINES COUNCIL PLAN
Shanghai, May 4. Plans for the organisation of n Sing-Philippines Trade council, along similar lines to the Sino-American, Sino-Japanese und Sing-British Trade Councils are reported to have mot with the hearty approval of oversea Chinese groups in the Philippines, During recent interviews with Chinese industrial leaders oversens,
the
the new Commonwealth.
hay, made another appearance before the Philippines, it is learned, stressed. Ip Wai-zee. 81. unemployed mess-the Chinese investigation party from for such organisation air Maefadyen at the Kot in order to promote Chinese trade in
morning on Magistrney this charges
erininal libel and (2) demanding money by menaces.
Originally defendant was only charged
with "that on or about April 20 at Kowloon did maliciously publish
Is this connection, it is understandi that negotiations are starting shortly between industrin and commercial
circles in China and the new Common-
a defamatory libel concerning Li Sangwealth for the formation of the pro-
in
form of a letter to the said Li Sang." Later an
additional charge money with menaces of against kim..
Was
Mr. C. E. It. Sanderson, of Russ and Co., appeared on behalf of the com
Club.
The Dockyam! Auzzy in the
plainant, Li Sang; No.
Li Sang: No. 1 club-boy of
The
passage libol charge is as The
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reason is that several yeara ngo a woman surnamed Yu who be longed to our clan absconded without her husband's knowledge and could not he traced. Men were sent every where to look for her. Due report had
atrendy been made a Ping Shan in Tam Shui for investigations to be made. Unexpectedly after a search
poned Trade Council-Renter.
BANISHEES STILL
RETURNING
PRISON SENTENCES
IMPOSED
Pleading guilty to a breach of the Deportation Ordinance by which he had been banished for a period of 10 years on September 14, 1935. Chinn Kong, aged 30, was sentenced to one year's hard labour when he
appeared before Mr. Himsworth at of several years we began to know the Kowloon Magistracy this mom- her whereabouts to-day. At first we
We Jap did not
not believe that
you had the audacity to marry a married woman.
Defendant sinter that he caine
It was after having repeatedly back to live with his sister. He was ascertained the matter by investiga-found to have a previous conviction tions that we dared to believe that you for the same offence, and another had already lived and slept in a pair for larceny, for several years,”
LETTER SENT
Appearing before Mr. Balfour al the Central Police Court this mom- ing on a remand charge of returning from banishment. Cheung Fat was Mr. Sanderson said complainant sentenced to five months' hard was the No. 1 club-boy of the Dock-labour. yard civilian club and lived at No. 20 The Magistrate remarked that he Reclamation Street. On Monday, had revised the sentence because. April 20, there was brought to his the defendant reported to the S.C.A. house a letter enclosed in an envelope on arrival here.
addressed to him. It was written in Sergt. T. G. Mackay, of the Finger- Chinese and had since been translated print Bureau, stated that defendant into English by the official Chinese had no reason whatever to be in the interpreter at the S.C.A. Tile letter Colony. This was his third return was brought by a boy working in from banishment, another complainant opened secuted.
the Tao Lan Club, a Sub-Inspector A. J. Johnson pro-
seamen's club. the letter and rend it.
Mr. Sanderson then read the trans- Intion to the Court.
the
that he sent out one of his friends
At the time the letter was received, to call the police. When the Police
complainant had no knowledge of
He
the defendant at all. In the letter arrived, the complainant made a com defendant asked him to go to a cer plaint to them and both parties were tain cafe in Kowloon, and complainant taken to the Police Station.
Mr. Samterson said the evidence did what he was asked to do. Ac on both charges was the same. companied by some friends, complain-would proceed on both charges, but
the cafe. ant went
if the Court; after hearing the Defendant turned up together with evidence, decided that there was not a man named Li Kwok, who would enough to support the charge of de- give evidence later in the came, Amanding money with mennees, he certain conversation then took place, would proceed on the one of criminal in the course of which the complain-libel.
int referred to the letter. The com After evlilence was called the hear plainant would say that the defen-ling was adjourned until to-morrow dant's demeanour was so threatening morning.
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UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF ERNST LUDITGES ven foħa Balliday-William Frawley • Kerne[Toons>t<Akim Tamieolf • Aise Howbury Directed By Bank Borssyn • From a comedy by Hans Grealy and R. A. Binnemle • A Paramount Picture
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Two Fisted
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LEE TRACY ROSCOE KARNS GAIL PATRICK - KENT TAYLOR
GRACE BRADLEY BILLY LEE Directed by James Cruze
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